Screaming Paris Hilton Sent Back to Jail
By LINDA DEUTSCH, AP Special Correspondent
2 hours ago

LOS ANGELES - Screaming and crying, Paris Hilton was escorted out of a courtroom and back to jail Friday after a judge ruled that she must serve out her entire 45-day sentence behind bars rather than in her Hollywood Hills home.

"It's not right!" shouted the weeping Hilton, who violated her parole in a reckless driving case. "Mom!" she called out to her mother in the audience.

Hilton, who was brought to court in handcuffs in a sheriff's car, came into the courtroom disheveled and weeping, hair askew, sans makeup, wearing a gray fuzzy sweatshirt over slacks.

She cried throughout the hearing, her body shook constantly and she dabbed at her eyes. Several times she turned to her parents, seated behind her in the courtroom, and mouthed, "I love you."

Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer was calm but apparently irked by the morning's developments. He said he had left the courthouse Thursday night having signed an order for Hilton to appear for the hearing.

When he got in his car early Friday, he said, he heard a radio report that he had approved Hilton's participation in the hearing by telephone, but he had not.

"I at no time condoned the actions of the sheriff and at no time told him I approved the actions," he said of the decision to release Hilton from jail after three days.

"At no time did I approve the defendant being released from custody to her home on Kings Road," Sauer said.

There has probably been at least one occasion in all my life (ok within the past 2 weeks) that I could have been just on the wrong side of .08 and the Judge not liked my excuse of "no problem - I learned to drive when I was 18 at .08 when it was legal."

If I had my license suspended, and was driving home the long way, the long way, I certainly would not to spend 43 days in the pokey.

Is there no end to the hypocrisy?
The City Attorney, who prosecuted Paris, had a wife drive with a suspended license and was not even cited for it!

Official's wife drove on suspended license
L.A. City Atty. Rocky Delgadillo's spouse was fined for a 2005 traffic violation incurred while she shouldn't have been at the wheel. His spokesman sees no comparison to the Hilton case.
By Patrick McGreevy, Times Staff Writer
June 9, 2007

Los Angeles City Atty. Rocky Delgadillo acknowledged Friday that his wife got a traffic ticket while driving with a suspended license in 2005, which resulted in her paying a $186 fine.

The disclosure came on the same day that Delgadillo insisted on more jail time for heiress Paris Hilton.

Delgadillo said through a spokesman that his wife regrets the violation, but that her situation is not comparable to the Hilton case.

"Paris Hilton, when driving with a suspended license, was on probation for a DUI-reckless driving charge," said Nick Velasquez, the Delgadillo spokesman. "Ms. Hilton was jailed because she was driving on a suspended license in violation of the conditions of her probation for the DUI-reckless driving incident."

Michelle Delgadillo, 36, was ticketed two years ago for failing to obey a turn-only sign, but was not cited by the ticketing officer for the license suspension.

Her license had been suspended the previous year after she was involved in an accident and could not show that she had insurance, as required by state law.

The city attorney's office was not involved in Michelle Delgadillo's case, which went through the usual traffic court channels.

"Once Rocky learned of this, he urged his wife to remedy the situation, and she did," Velasquez said. "Michelle regrets driving with a suspended license and takes full responsibility for her mistake."

Michelle Delgadillo's license was suspended for "driving without proof of insurance and causing an accident," said Mike Miller, a spokesman for the state Department of Motor Vehicles.

Michelle Delgadillo did not file a copy of the accident report with the DMV, Miller said, but the other driver involved in the accident did. Reports are required whenever an accident involves injury or more than $750 in damage. When she failed to provide proof of insurance, the DMV suspended her license from July 25, 2004, through March 6, 2007, Miller said.

On Sept. 13, 2005, Delgadillo was issued a ticket by a Los Angeles Police Department officer from West Traffic Division at 6th Street and Fairfax Place. She was driving the family's personal vehicle, a Ford Expedition, according to the ticket.

The ticketing officer wrote "none" in the place on the ticket where it asks for evidence of financial responsibility.

"If her license was suspended, she should not have been driving that day," said Shirley Richardson, a manager for the DMV.